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CITY OF GOD IN EXILE THE DAILY PILGRIMAGE "Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways." - Proverbs 8:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. [...] For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Luke 12:32-34 11th Sunday after Pentecost 2026-08-09 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green PLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY 11th Sunday after Pentecost is the principal observance today. The calendar also preserves St. John Mary Vianney, Confessor on this date. The secondary saint panel below comes from that secondary observance. That material adds another traditional lesson for the date; it does not replace the principal observance. Commemoration: a shorter liturgical remembrance of another saint or observance occurring on the same day. Martyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith. Confessor: in the traditional calendar, a male saint who openly professed the Faith by a holy life but was not killed as a martyr. The full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears. TODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR At Pentecost the Holy Ghost strengthened the apostles to preach Christ publicly and carry the Gospel to the nations. His work is not private excitement separated from doctrine, worship, and the authority Christ established. The faithful should ask Him for zeal that makes them more obedient to revealed truth, more constant in charity, and more courageous in Catholic witness. Love and serve Our Lady for God rather than merely for temporal rescue, bodily relief, success, or personal advantage. Entrust every temporal and spiritual need to Our Lady while asking above all for God's will, holiness, salvation, and perseverance. "There are also the interested devotees, who have recourse to our Lady only to gain some lawsuit, or to avoid some danger, or to be cured of some illness, or for some other similar necessity, without which they would forget her altogether." St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 103 It is good to bring temporal and bodily needs to Our Lady; a child asks its Mother for help in everything. The falsehood lies in only—remembering her while a benefit is desired, then forgetting God and Mary once danger passes or the request is denied. Purify petition into filial love. Ask temporal favors subject to God's will and eternal salvation; pray more urgently for grace, conversion, virtue, perseverance, the Church, sinners, the dying, and holy souls; give thanks after every outcome; and remain at Calvary as faithfully as at Cana. PRACTICE Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth. QUOTE OF THE DAY "For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God." St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book IV, chapter 20, §7 NOVENA IN PROGRESS Novena for the Assumption - Day 4 of 9 Preparing for Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 2026-08-15. PETITION Ask Our Lady to detach the soul from earth and order hope toward Heaven. NOVENA PRAYER O Lord, we beseech Thee, forgive the transgressions of Thy servants, and, forasmuch as by our own deeds we cannot please Thee, may we find safety through the prayers of the Mother of Thy Son and our Lord. Through the Same our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. A FAITHFUL ACT Renounce every earthly attachment that weakens prayer or purity, beginning with the attachment that most often draws the heart from God. ROMAN MARTYROLOGY - August 9 The vigil of St. Lawrence, martyr. — At Rome, St. Romanus, soldier, who was moved by the torments of blessed Lawrence to ask for baptism from him. He was immediately prosecuted, scourged, and finally beheaded. — In Tuscany, the birthday of the holy martyrs Secundian, Marcellian, and Verian. In the time of Decius, they were scourged by the ex-consul Promotus, then racked and torn with iron hooks. Being burned with fire applied to their sides, they merited the triumphant palm of martyrdom by having their heads struck off. — At Verona, the holy martyrs Firmus and Rusticus, in the time of the emperor Maximian. — In Africa, the commemoration of many holy martyrs, during the persecution of Valerian. Being exhorted by St. Numidicus, they obtained the palm of martyrdom by being cast into the fire, but Numidicus, although thrown into the flames with the others and overwhelmed with stones, was nevertheless taken out by his daughter. Found half dead, he was restored and deserved afterwards by his virtue to be made priest of the church of Carthage by blessed Cyprian. — At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Julian, Marcian, and eight others. For having set up the image of our Saviour on the brazen gate, they were exposed to many torments, and then beheaded by order of the impious emperor Leo. — At Chalons, in France, St. Domitian, bishop and confessor. GOSPEL OF THE DAY He hath done all things well. 11th Sunday after Pentecost - Mark 7:31-37 "Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened." Ask Our Lord to open what has grown closed. He can make the soul hear again and speak with a cleaner love. THE CHURCH'S READING OF THE GOSPEL What This Gospel Teaches Christ opens the ears and tongue so man may hear truth and confess it. The healing shows that grace restores the powers wounded by sin. Error corrected: The closed ear that cannot be taught and the loose tongue that will not be governed. - Where does this error tempt me in practice? - What act does this Gospel require of me today? TODAY'S SAINT OR FEAST 11th Sunday after Pentecost He hath done all things well. The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost shows Our Lord healing the deaf and dumb man, opening ears and loosening the tongue. The day teaches that grace must open the soul to hear truth before it can speak rightly; Catholic confession is born from divine healing, not self-expression. Let Christ touch both ear and tongue. In exile, speech must come from a soul first opened to His word. SECONDARY SAINT ASSIGNED TO THIS DATE St. John Mary Vianney Parish priest, confessor, and father of souls. St. John Mary Vianney was sent to the small parish of Ars, where he spent himself in prayer, penance, catechism, preaching, and long hours in the confessional. He did not save souls by charm or novelty. He taught plainly, hated sin because it offends God, and drew sinners back to confession, Mass, prayer, and amendment of life. Ask St. John Vianney for hatred of sin and confidence in mercy. A soul is not helped by being left comfortable in peril; it is helped by truth, confession, prayer, and a fatherly hand toward heaven. FROM MATINS Hezekiah, sickness, prayer, and humble confidence. Matins - Second Nocturn - 11th Sunday after Pentecost St. Jerome, Priest "Happy is he whose conscience in the hour of affliction can assure him of good works." - The Breviary presents Hezekiah's sickness as a humbling mercy after triumph, turning the king back toward God. - St. Jerome teaches that God's threatened punishments may be a summons to prayer, not because God changes, but because He reveals His mercy. - A good conscience in affliction is not self-praise, but the fruit of having destroyed idols and walked sincerely before the Lord. When illness or fear narrows the world, turn your face toward God. Let affliction become prayer, examination, and renewed hatred of idols. FULL BREVIARY LESSONS Fourth Lesson - St. Jerome on Hezekiah's Humbling The Lesson is taken from the Exposition of the Prophet Isaiah written by St Jerome, Priest [at Bethlehem.] (Bk. ii. on Is. xxxviii.) Lest the heart of Hezekiah should be puffed up by his strange and unlocked for triumphs, and by his victory when he was but a prisoner, he was visited by bodily weakness, and told that he was to die; that he might betake himself to the Lord, and turn Him from carrying out the sentence. We read of a like case in the history of the Prophet Jonah (ii. 4, 10.) And in regard to the threatening made against David (2 Kings (Sam.) xxiv. 16)--when punishments were foretold which were not brought to pass. This is not because that God is a Being capable of changing His mind, but because He willeth to mankind to know Him, how that "He [is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and] repenteth Him of the evil." (Joel ii. 13.) Hezekiah turned his face unto the wall, not being able to go up to the Temple. This may either mean that he turned towards the wall of the Temple, hard by which Solomon had built a palace, or simply, that he turned his face to the wall, so as not to parade his tears before his attendants. Fifth Lesson - A Good Conscience in Affliction Having been told that he was about to die, he prayed not for life and many years, but left it to God to do as in His good judgment He was pleased to will. He knew how this had pleased God on the part of Solomon. (3 (1) Kings iii. 11.) So, when he betook him to the Lord, he only made mention of his works, how he had walked before Him in truth, and with a perfect heart. Happy is he whose conscience in the hour of affliction can assure him of good works. Yea, "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matth. v. 8.) It is indeed written in another place: "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" (Prov. xx. 9.) How then could Hezekiah say that he had walked with a perfect heart? But the answer is, that by this is meant that he had destroyed the idols, opened the doors of the Temple, broken in pieces the brazen serpent, and done the rest of the things whereof the Scripture maketh mention. Sixth Lesson - Hezekiah's Tears and the Promise to David "And Hezekiah wept sore." He had then no children, and it seemed as though the promise which God had made unto David, [that "his seed should endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before" Him, (Ps. lxxxviii. 29,)] was about to fail in his own death. It is written that "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign," (xxi. 1)--whence it is evident that Hezekiah begat him not till after three years of his new lease of life. Sore therefore wept he, when all hope was torn from him that the Messiah should spring from his seed. Others again remark that he wept sore, since death terrifieth sometimes even the saints, since they know not what sentence is about to be pronounced upon them, and what place shall be allotted them in the inscrutable judgment. THE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE Justification Requires True Conversion The Church places this truth before you today: The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional. The grace to be practiced is Receptive hearing and truthful speech, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Practice disinterested filial love by serving Mary faithfully whether requests are granted, delayed, denied, or answered through sacrifice. There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing receptive hearing and truthful speech when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control. Do the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Remain with Our Lady at Calvary when devotion brings no visible advantage, relief, success, consolation, or protection from trial. Pray for the full needs of others and continue gratitude, imitation, service, and consecration after immediate personal necessities pass. The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of holy; the witness placed beside it is Council of Trent. Your resolution before God: Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth. Carry this word: There is no holiness where heresy is treated as harmless. THE PILGRIM'S MIRROR "As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation." Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21 The presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire. Do not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy. Today's Practice: Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty. DAILY EXAMEN Ask whether self-interest governed recourse to Mary, thank her for all maternal help, and renew love independent of benefit. - For what grace or mercy should I thank God today? - What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess? - What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow? PRAYER O Lord, give me hatred of error without hatred of souls. Let charity make me clearer, humbler, more patient, and more willing to defend what saves. DAILY RULE FOR THE PILGRIM A brief rule to keep every day: Begin with morning prayer Adore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind. Keep the Angelus Pause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation. Seek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament Attend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Return to Jesus and Mary Use frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation. Pray the Rosary Keep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain. End with night prayer and examen Give thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady. CONTINUE STUDY Grace, Conversion, and Final Perseverance: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mercy-and-salvation/grace-conversion-and-final-perseverance?entered=1 Open this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-08-09&entered=1 Open this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-08-09&entered=1 Browse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1
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CIUDAD DE DIOS EN EXILIO 11th Sunday after Pentecost 2026-08-09 - Time after Pentecost - Semi-Double Sunday - green Nota: las secciones fijas de formación se presentan en español; los textos diarios variables permanecen en el idioma mantenido en la fuente hasta que se agregue una traducción revisada. HOY EN EL AÑO ROMANO At Pentecost the Holy Ghost strengthened the apostles to preach Christ publicly and carry the Gospel to the nations. His work is not private excitement separated from doctrine, worship, and the authority Christ established. The faithful should ask Him for zeal that makes them more obedient to revealed truth, more constant in charity, and more courageous in Catholic witness. PRÁCTICA Name the errors you are tempted to soften, then answer them with clear Catholic truth. CITA DEL DÍA "For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God." St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book IV, chapter 20, §7 NOVENA EN CURSO Novena for the Assumption - Día 4 de 9 Preparación para Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary el 2026-08-15. PETICIÓN Ask Our Lady to detach the soul from earth and order hope toward Heaven. ORACIÓN DE LA NOVENA O Lord, we beseech Thee, forgive the transgressions of Thy servants, and, forasmuch as by our own deeds we cannot please Thee, may we find safety through the prayers of the Mother of Thy Son and our Lord. Through the Same our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. UN ACTO FIEL Renounce every earthly attachment that weakens prayer or purity, beginning with the attachment that most often draws the heart from God. MARTIROLOGIO ROMANO - August 9 The vigil of St. Lawrence, martyr. — At Rome, St. Romanus, soldier, who was moved by the torments of blessed Lawrence to ask for baptism from him. He was immediately prosecuted, scourged, and finally beheaded. — In Tuscany, the birthday of the holy martyrs Secundian, Marcellian, and Verian. In the time of Decius, they were scourged by the ex-consul Promotus, then racked and torn with iron hooks. Being burned with fire applied to their sides, they merited the triumphant palm of martyrdom by having their heads struck off. — At Verona, the holy martyrs Firmus and Rusticus, in the time of the emperor Maximian. — In Africa, the commemoration of many holy martyrs, during the persecution of Valerian. Being exhorted by St. Numidicus, they obtained the palm of martyrdom by being cast into the fire, but Numidicus, although thrown into the flames with the others and overwhelmed with stones, was nevertheless taken out by his daughter. Found half dead, he was restored and deserved afterwards by his virtue to be made priest of the church of Carthage by blessed Cyprian. — At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Julian, Marcian, and eight others. For having set up the image of our Saviour on the brazen gate, they were exposed to many torments, and then beheaded by order of the impious emperor Leo. — At Chalons, in France, St. Domitian, bishop and confessor. EVANGELIO DEL DÍA He hath done all things well. 11th Sunday after Pentecost - Mark 7:31-37 "Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened." Ask Our Lord to open what has grown closed. He can make the soul hear again and speak with a cleaner love. LA LECTURA DE LA IGLESIA DEL EVANGELIO Lo que enseña este Evangelio Christ opens the ears and tongue so man may hear truth and confess it. The healing shows that grace restores the powers wounded by sin. Error corregido: The closed ear that cannot be taught and the loose tongue that will not be governed. - ¿Dónde me tienta este error en la práctica? - ¿Qué acto exige de mí este Evangelio hoy? SANTO O FIESTA DE HOY 11th Sunday after Pentecost He hath done all things well. The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost shows Our Lord healing the deaf and dumb man, opening ears and loosening the tongue. The day teaches that grace must open the soul to hear truth before it can speak rightly; Catholic confession is born from divine healing, not self-expression. Let Christ touch both ear and tongue. In exile, speech must come from a soul first opened to His word. TESTIMONIO DEL BREVIARIO Ephpheta: Be thou opened. Matins - 11th Sunday after Pentecost - The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost contemplates Christ opening the ears and loosening the tongue of the deaf and dumb man. - Its witness teaches that the soul must first be opened by grace to hear truth before it can confess rightly with the tongue. Ask Christ to heal both hearing and speech. A Catholic witness must receive truth before announcing it. Instrucción del Breviario El testimonio del Breviario para 11th Sunday after Pentecost forma parte de la enseñanza diaria de la Iglesia. No debe leerse como una lista de datos aislados: la Sagrada Escritura, las vidas de los santos, la doctrina y la oración de la Iglesia se unen para formar el juicio y la vida católica. El testimonio de hoy se reúne bajo Ephpheta: Be thou opened.. Su primer punto es: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost contemplates Christ opening the ears and loosening the tongue of the deaf and dumb man. La instrucción práctica es: Ask Christ to heal both hearing and speech. A Catholic witness must receive truth before announcing it. Pregunte qué verdad se custodia, qué virtud se alaba y qué peligro u olvido se corrige. - ¿Qué verdad enseña o defiende este testimonio del Breviario? - ¿Qué virtud pone la Iglesia ante mí? - ¿Qué juicio o acción debe cambiar por haber recibido esta lección? SERMÓN O LECCIÓN DEL BREVIARIO Hezekiah, sickness, prayer, and humble confidence. Matins - Second Nocturn - 11th Sunday after Pentecost St. Jerome, Priest "Happy is he whose conscience in the hour of affliction can assure him of good works." - The Breviary presents Hezekiah's sickness as a humbling mercy after triumph, turning the king back toward God. - St. Jerome teaches that God's threatened punishments may be a summons to prayer, not because God changes, but because He reveals His mercy. - A good conscience in affliction is not self-praise, but the fruit of having destroyed idols and walked sincerely before the Lord. When illness or fear narrows the world, turn your face toward God. Let affliction become prayer, examination, and renewed hatred of idols. LECCIONES COMPLETAS DEL BREVIARIO Fourth Lesson - St. Jerome on Hezekiah's Humbling The Lesson is taken from the Exposition of the Prophet Isaiah written by St Jerome, Priest [at Bethlehem.] (Bk. ii. on Is. xxxviii.) Lest the heart of Hezekiah should be puffed up by his strange and unlocked for triumphs, and by his victory when he was but a prisoner, he was visited by bodily weakness, and told that he was to die; that he might betake himself to the Lord, and turn Him from carrying out the sentence. We read of a like case in the history of the Prophet Jonah (ii. 4, 10.) And in regard to the threatening made against David (2 Kings (Sam.) xxiv. 16)--when punishments were foretold which were not brought to pass. This is not because that God is a Being capable of changing His mind, but because He willeth to mankind to know Him, how that "He [is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and] repenteth Him of the evil." (Joel ii. 13.) Hezekiah turned his face unto the wall, not being able to go up to the Temple. This may either mean that he turned towards the wall of the Temple, hard by which Solomon had built a palace, or simply, that he turned his face to the wall, so as not to parade his tears before his attendants. Fifth Lesson - A Good Conscience in Affliction Having been told that he was about to die, he prayed not for life and many years, but left it to God to do as in His good judgment He was pleased to will. He knew how this had pleased God on the part of Solomon. (3 (1) Kings iii. 11.) So, when he betook him to the Lord, he only made mention of his works, how he had walked before Him in truth, and with a perfect heart. Happy is he whose conscience in the hour of affliction can assure him of good works. Yea, "blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matth. v. 8.) It is indeed written in another place: "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?" (Prov. xx. 9.) How then could Hezekiah say that he had walked with a perfect heart? But the answer is, that by this is meant that he had destroyed the idols, opened the doors of the Temple, broken in pieces the brazen serpent, and done the rest of the things whereof the Scripture maketh mention. Sixth Lesson - Hezekiah's Tears and the Promise to David "And Hezekiah wept sore." He had then no children, and it seemed as though the promise which God had made unto David, [that "his seed should endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before" Him, (Ps. lxxxviii. 29,)] was about to fail in his own death. It is written that "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign," (xxi. 1)--whence it is evident that Hezekiah begat him not till after three years of his new lease of life. Sore therefore wept he, when all hope was torn from him that the Messiah should spring from his seed. Others again remark that he wept sore, since death terrifieth sometimes even the saints, since they know not what sentence is about to be pronounced upon them, and what place shall be allotted them in the inscrutable judgment. VERDAD DE LA FE Justification Requires True Conversion The sinner is not healed by excuse or affirmation, but by grace, repentance, faith, hope, charity, and the turning of the soul toward God. Nota de la Iglesia: Holy Defensor: Council of Trent Defensa católica: Catholic mercy restores the sinner to truth; it never names sin as holiness or treats amendment as optional. Error que resistir: Resist false mercy, which comforts the sinner while leaving the wound unhealed. VIRTUD QUE PRACTICAR Receptive hearing and truthful speech. La virtud de hoy es Receptive hearing and truthful speech.. No debe quedar como un buen pensamiento: la gracia ha de entrar en los deberes reales del día, en la oración, la vida familiar, el trabajo, la corrección necesaria, el silencio paciente y la resistencia a la tentación. La virtud no es solamente una disposición natural o un temperamento agradable. La virtud católica ordena el alma y sus actos hacia Dios; está gobernada por la verdad, fortalecida por la gracia, purificada por el arrepentimiento y perfeccionada por la caridad. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Ask Christ to open the ear to doctrine. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Use speech for truth and prayer. Ponga la virtud en práctica de este modo: Keep silence where speech would serve vanity. - ¿Dónde será probada esta virtud en mis deberes reales de hoy? - ¿Qué mera apariencia natural podría confundir con la virtud misma? - ¿Qué acto concreto realizaré antes de la noche? ORACIÓN O Lord, give me hatred of error without hatred of souls. Let charity make me clearer, humbler, more patient, and more willing to defend what saves. REGLA DIARIA DEL PEREGRINO Una regla breve para guardar cada día: Comenzar con la oración de la mañana Reconozca a Dios y ofrézcale el día antes de atender otras obligaciones. Guardar el Ángelus Deténgase por la mañana, al mediodía y por la tarde para recordar la Encarnación. Hacer una comunión espiritual Renueve el deseo de Nuestro Señor en el Santísimo Sacramento sin tratar el exilio como algo normal. Rezar el Rosario Mantenga ante la mente los misterios de Cristo con Nuestra Señora. Volver a Dios con jaculatorias Use una breve aspiración santa durante el trabajo, la espera, el sufrimiento o la tentación. Terminar con oración nocturna y examen Dé gracias, confiese las faltas, perdone las ofensas y haga un propósito concreto. EXAMEN DIARIO - ¿Por qué gracia o misericordia debo dar gracias a Dios hoy? - ¿Qué pecado, falta, deber descuidado o resistencia a la gracia debo confesar? - ¿Qué propósito concreto llevaré a mañana? Continuar estudio: https://cityofgodinexile.com/mercy-and-salvation/grace-conversion-and-final-perseverance?entered=1 Abrir este día en el Calendario Sagrado: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2026-08-09&entered=1 Abrir vista web: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2026-08-09&entered=1 Índice de formación: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1